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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your points are exactly why it is surprising. Most executives don’t think like me and you. If you give them a million dollars, they say they need 10 million. If you give them a billion dollars, they say they need 10 billion. There is no end to their greed. Look at how Google and Amazon are still trying to strong-arm their industries to get even more billions of dollars. Musk is out there demanding a trillion dollars.

  CEOs and execs at large multinational corps like Intel don’t usually coast. They might make strategic blunders, but they usually push to make as much money as they can. If they fail, they fall back on their golden parachutes. If they win, they get shitloads more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s sort of incredibly about America’s Intel is that they haven’t done any of this shit, clinging to their dead-end chip design long after its expiration date and missing the boom in demand for high end chips entirely.

  This is the most baffling thing to me. How could Intel leadership be so incompetent? They had the inside track to hundreds of billions in revenue and just decided to coast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should hit the gym more, just in case shit pops off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My normal toilet lets me shit remotely. Who the hell has a toilet that only lets them shit at home?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo approved to start testing autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I advocate autonomous cars and have taken multiple Waymos in a couple cities, one limitation Waymos have is when there is a queuing situation like at dropoff/pickup areas. Whenever organized chaos is overcome by humans and nonverbal communication, Waymos just fall flat. Hotel valet areas, office building dropoff areas, narrow streets with parking on both sides when a work truck is parked to unload something, etc. Waymos just stop working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would I want a device that I never use? I only make phone calls roughly 3 times per week. I message multiple times a day, but flip phones had shitty interfaces for typing. The vast majority of my phone use is web search, camera, navigation, and messaging. Flip phones could get better cameras than they used to have. Their screens were too small to do great at web searching. Navigation might work, I guess. Although I used to love my Treo and Pre for the full physical keyboard, I prefer swype typing now to tapping or physical keys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC chair alleges partisan filtering by Gmail; Google says spam filters not ideological⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Google as much as the next guy, but their response is dead on. If millions of real people are marking the same thing as spam, then the algorithms are forced to identify that thing as spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  "If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I think this is pretty amazing science stuff, the writing is terrible. Here is the progression of the story as written:

  They made butter from carbon…

  Well, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen…

  OK, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, and methane…

  Well, no, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, methane, and glycerol…

  Wait, hang on, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, methane, glycerol, natural flavor, and lecithin…

  Now, the source of glycerol is in question, because they say this butter is both animal and plant-free. Glycerol can be made synthetically, but it’s WAY more expensive to do it. Also, I’m not seeing any way to create lecithin without plants. They never say what the “natural flavor” is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve boycotted Amazon completely for 25 years, ever since their 1 click patent bullshit. It’s not that hard to do, but people are lazy and cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing that Intel leadership is a threat to is Intel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To answer the question I think you are asking: No, I’ve never done any of the modern game competitions or leagues. I am not nearly good enough to compete against anyone who is remotely good enough to compete in gaming competitions. I’m also a completely different gamer these days and prefer to just play more meditative single player games that have bursts of action.

  To answer the question in a very literal way: Yes, back in the 80s I made it to the regional finals of the Nintendo World Championships (at the time when the Fred Savage movie The Wizard had just came out). I was up on stage in the central throne chair with the 100ft TV screen behind me projecting my game to 1000s of people in front of me cheering us on. I was roughly 10?? at the time, so I thought I was fucking amazing. I just barely missed out on making it to the next round in some other state because I screwed up placing a long piece in Tetris. I won a hat out of the thing.

  I also played in a Tetris tournament at a bar in LA about 15 years ago. I fucking crushed it and won $100.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your assessment is spot on.

  If so, you’re not gonna have a lot of friends, which is a pretty shitty way to live.

  Or you choose friends who will stay your friends even if you miss a concert???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on San Francisco tech exec⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the same Maury Blackman who violently beat a woman less than half his age? I’m not sure, which is why I’m asking a question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to the game’s website to see how they portrayed the game as opposed to taking whatever cherry-picked similarities Sony chose to use as their argument.

  Wow. It is fucking identical. Maybe the gameplay is different, but the art is indistinguishable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 Trailer Drops, Teasing Chaos And Massive Firepower – Everything Else You Need to Know!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m personally offended you didn’t list BF1942 in your list of fun games. It was broken in so many hilariously fun ways. How much fun is it to be a sniper flying on the wing of a plane? Or suicide bomb a person in a plane only to eject and pop your parachute 1ft above the ground safely? Or to park your tank with the turret inside the door of a spawn point just blasting away?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you insane or just fucking stupid? Serious question here. Not trying to be insulting.

  This entire topic of conversation is about this bill: …senate.gov/…/warren-sheehy-introduce-bipartisan-…

  None of the stuff you posted about or linked about in 80pt font is in the bill everyone else is talking about. The stuff you are ranting about is in the Big Beautiful Bill, which is a different legislative bill that Senator Warren (and every other Democrat) voted against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of those things are involved in this bill. Everything you mentioned is all about the reconciliation budget.

  Please say what could have been done on this bill, which is completely separate legislation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, take that Fresnel lens that you were using to melt pennies and then focus it on a PV cell that is also made of metal. What might be the expected response? The science in this case is making PV cells that can handle the intense heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t that. They have been talking about Fresnel lenses on PV for decades. It’s solving the heat issue and the size issue. A Fresnel lens gathers a large area of light and focuses it down, including focusing the heat. Normal PV cells cannot handle that amount of heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, what should they have done in this case? Please give concrete steps what they should have done.

  I agree with you they should have been doing a lot more to deny a functioning government for the last 6 months, but in this case the very best they could have done was not co-sponsor the bill and then vote Yes on it. Because, again, this bill is a GOOD THING. It isn’t the best thing, but it is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it. Since what they did wasn’t 100% perfect and a fix to everything, they are tone deaf and terrible politicians. It’s a really good thing what they did, but since it doesn’t help you personally, then it is a terrible thing. They recognized something that needed fixing that will save billions of taxpayer dollars and hurts large corporations, but since they didn’t fix the thing that impacts you then it is bad.

  Also, this is the OPPOSITE of sending the message that corporate interests are more valuable. This is saying that corporations that are making billions off taxpayer funded contracts will no longer be able to bilk us (as much).

  Yes, they should absolutely go after the right to repair for everyone, but maybe (and I’m just spitballing here) Warren knows that she couldn’t get the Republican majority to vote yes on a full package and went for the win she could get instead of blocking something that does do good. You do realize, right, that the Democrats do not have a majority anywhere in the federal government?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While this isn’t as far as I’d like them to go, this is extremely big news. The amount of money spent on absolute bullshit fees by defense contractors is bonkers. Us taxpayers are shelling out billions of dollars to buy a single jet that we then have to spend millions of dollars per year to maintain, simply because we aren’t allowed to maintain it ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is tone deaf about this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the likely scenario. They are predicting an incredibly unpredictable consumer market in the next 4-8 years but a very predictable defense industry market in that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There Isn’t Much Sway Held by Past Success’: Baldur’s Gate 3 actors reveal it hasn’t boosted their careers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did two full playthroughs plus a lot of restarts mid-way to try different endings or different side things. The only voice I can clearly hear in my head is the mage, whose name I can’t even remember. I can’t even remember what my own character’s voice sounded like (the vampire).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? [19:23 | JUN 28 2025 | GVS Deep Dive]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The writing in this story is not accurate. Iran isn’t turning it off for the country. They are talking about switching government services to use receivers that use Beidou as primary source of timing and maybe selectively turn off using GPS on those devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? [19:23 | JUN 28 2025 | GVS Deep Dive]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t jam GPS in the entire country. That kind of jamming is very localized to strategic sites. Country-wide jamming would be wildly expensive. They could (and probably already do) jam it at military bases and nuclear facilities, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? [19:23 | JUN 28 2025 | GVS Deep Dive]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t shut down the satellites over Iran. That’s not how GPS works. They aren’t geostationary with tight beams like comm satellites. Every GPS satellite goes around the earth twice a day and has a beam that covers the entire earth plus something like 10 degrees on the sides out into space (circular, not actually side to side). While the US can turn off broadcasting while directly over very large swaths at a time (like, say, China and Russia), it isn’t actually turned off on the ground because there will still be satellites over Europe or northern Africa that will be on and sending data at a higher angle to that large swath. It will be lower powered in that region because the signal power is lower at the edges, but it isn’t off. Also, Iran is in the same region as US allies and US military bases: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc; so the US would be unlikely to want to lower GPS power in that region.

  Starlink is very different in how it sends signals to the earth, which is why it can shut off services to areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Have any of you realized how much money we spent on this?!”